CC: El Salvador's Gang Truce 22 Nov 2012




Crossing Continents show

Summary: El Salvador's violent street gangs have made a truce. The Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street gang are criminal outfits that trace their origins to Los Angeles. In March peace was brokered in El Salvador’s prisons with the gangs’ leaders. Since then the murder rate in this small Central American nation has plummeted. Linda Pressly visits the jailed leaders to find out how the deal was done. Is this a peace that can last?